Mailfence vs Tuta Comparison
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| Rating | 7.0 | 7.9 |
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| Free tier | Limited free tierShow detailsHide details1 GB total (500 MB email + 500 MB documents), no custom domain, Knowledge Base-only support. | Limited free tierShow detailsHide details1 GB storage, 1 calendar, 3 labels, no custom domain, no extra addresses |
| Established | 1999 | 2011 |
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| Privacy | ||
| Jurisdiction | BelgiumShow detailsHide detailsContactOffice Group sa, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 47b, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium, company number BE 0466.241.584. Gag orders are not legally possible in Belgium — Mailfence's warrant canary states it has never received a US National Security Letter or FISA court order, and could disclose a valid Belgian court order to the affected user. | GermanyShow detailsHide detailsTutao GmbH, Deisterstr. 17a, 30449 Hanover, Germany. Registered at the District Court of Hanover, HRB 208014. |
| Independent security audit | None on record | None on record |
| Source code | Closed source | Fully open source |
| Zero-access encryption | No | Yes |
| Intra-provider E2EE | No | Yes |
| External PGP | Native | Not supported |
| Past data breach | No | No |
| Telemetry | On unless you opt out | No telemetry |
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| Hosting | Cloud | Cloud |
| Custom domain support | Yes | Yes |
| Aliases | Unlimited | Limited |
| Anti-spam approach | Incoming and outgoing messages are automatically analysed by anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-abuse checking routines; the provider's own security-analysis documentation states this applies at the transport layer and that OpenPGP-encrypted message bodies are never visible to the server. | SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MTA-STS harden the infrastructure against phishing and spam at the protocol level; Tuta blocks external content (images, videos) in emails by default and warns when the technical sender differs from the visible From address, without scanning encrypted message content. |
| Bundled services | CalendarsDocumentsGroups | CalendarDrive |
